Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
I think that this quote is what is going to happen to the Russian Army in Ukraine. The lightening advance last September in Kharkiv is a forecast of what will happen next. The only question is when and where the Ukrainian army will break through and the Russians collapse.
I'll take a page from my own post and ask:
Does Ukraine have local air superiority in the area you are eyeing for the breakthrough?
And if they don't have it, can they get it?
Reading the news for the past two months, I get the idea that Armed Forces of Ukraine have been trying to shape the battlefield, in particular the logistics piece, so that the "gradually but suddenly" happens in the second and third echelon to the point that first echelon "suddenly realizes" that
"there's nobody/nothing backing us up."
But that's a guess.